{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/bits/bits068.htm","path":"bud/bits/bits068.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/bits/bits068.htm","text":"Sacred-Texts Buddhism Index Sources Previous Next\n| p. 313 | | \n\u00a7 68. S\u00c2RIPUTTA AND THE TWO DEMONS.\n[THE SECOND AND FIFTH HIGH POWERS.]\nTranslated from the Ud\u00e2na (iv.4).\nThus have I heard.\nOn a certain occasion The Blessed One was dwelling at R\u00e2jagaha, in Bamboo Grove in Kalandakaniv\u00e2pa. And at that time the venerable S\u00e2riputta and the venerable Moggall\u00e2na the Great were dwelling in the monastery called Pigeon Glen. Now it chanced that the venerable S\u00e2riputta, on a moonlight night, was seated under the open sky, with freshly shaven head, and in a state of trance. And it chanced that two demons, who were comrades, were passing on some errand from the northern quarter of the heavens to the southern. And these demons saw the venerable S\u00e2riputta, on the moonlight night, seated under the open sky, with freshly shaven head. And at sight of him, the first demon spoke to the second demon as follows:\n\"It occurs to me, comrade, that it would be a fine plan to give this monk a blow on the head.\"\nHearing this, the second demon replied:\n\"Enough of that, comrade; do not attack the monk. Great, O comrade, is the monk, of great magical power, and very mighty.\"\nAnd a second time the first demon spoke to the second demon as follows:\n| p. 314 | [Ud.iv.4 | \nAnd a second time the second demon replied:\nAnd a third time the first demon spoke to the second demon as follows:\nAnd a third time the second demon replied:\n\"Enough of that! comrade; do not attack the monk. Great, O comrade, is the monk, of great magical power, and very mighty.\"\nThen the first demon, not heeding what the other demon said, gave the venerable S\u00e2riputta a blow on the head. With such a blow one might fell an elephant seven or seven-and-a-half cubits high, or might split a mountain peak. Thereupon, with the cry, \"I am burning! I am burning!\" the demon fell from where he stood into hell.\nAnd the venerable Moggall\u00e2na the Great, with his divinely clear vision surpassing that of men, saw the demon give the venerable S\u00e2riputta the blow on the head. And when he had seen it, he drew near to where the venerable S\u00e2riputta was; and having drawn near, he spoke to the venerable S\u00e2riputta as follows:\n\"Are you comfortable, brother? Are you doing well? Does nothing trouble you?\"\n\"I am comfortable, brother Moggall\u00e2na. I am doing well, brother Moggall\u00e2na; but my head troubles me a little.\"\n\"O wonderful is it, brother S\u00e2riputta! O marvellous is it, brother S\u00e2riputta! How great is the magical power, and how great is the might of the venerable S\u00e2riputta! Just now, brother S\u00e2riputta, a certain demon gave you a blow on the head. And a mighty blow it was! With such a blow one might fell an elephant seven or seven-and-a-half cubits high, or might split a mountain peak. But the venerable S\u00e2riputta only says thus: 'I am comfortable, brother Moggall\u00e2na.\n| p. 315 | [Ud.iv.4 | \nI am doing well, brother Moggall\u00e2na; but my head troubles me a little.'\"\n\"O wonderful is it, brother Moggall\u00e2na! O marvellous is it, brother Moggall\u00e2na! How great is the magical power, and how great is the might of the venerable Moggall\u00e2na that he should see any demon at all! I, however, have not seen so much as a mud-sprite.\"\nNow The Blessed One, with his divinely clear hearing surpassing that of men, heard the above conversation between these two elephants among men. Then The Blessed One, on learning of this occurrence, on that occasion breathed forth this solemn utterance:\n| \"The man whose mind, like to a rock, Unmoved stands, and shaketh not; Which no delights can e'er inflame, Or provocations rouse to wrath-- O, whence can trouble come to him, Who thus bath nobly trained his mind?\" |","title":"Buddhism in Translations - \u00a7 68. S\u00e2riputta and...","type":"page"}